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...Classicists,” Koven-Matasy says.By changing the language used in the play and having the actors dress in contemporary outfits—mostly their own clothes—the cast and staff hoped that the audience would better understand the play without being bogged down by archaic jargon and references.“We wanted to make something that would make sense to the modern audience and that would relate to them. That’s the most effective way to reinterpret the play,” Koven-Matasy says. “It [the sexual component...
Before the inflation and deregulation of the 1970s put an end to old financial ways, the formula for successful banking was said to be 3-6-3: bankers borrowed at 3%, lent at 6% and hit the golf course by 3 p.m. It was an inefficient, seemingly archaic system. But it allowed banks to make healthy profits without taking big risks and protected the financial system from the volatility inherent in market-based shadow banking. We've now returned, temporarily at least, to something like 3-6-3. We may want to consider making it permanent...
There's no getting around it: Kings is a bizarre, disorienting hybrid of a show. For starters, there's the language, half-contemporary, half-archaic: "We sign our names, we shake hands, and future ghosts know us for our contributions, not our wars," says Silas at a treaty negotiation. Kings is lucky to have McShane, who, as a philosophical criminal in Deadwood, effortlessly breathed out David Milch's mix of obscenity, frontier talk and Shakespeare. Here, leonine, menacing and thoughtful, he makes Kings' quasi-biblical declamations seem natural - as well as the idea that a First World Western country would...
...This bill is serving an archaic fairy tale up to artists, but in reality is an authoritarian sleight of hand," says Socialist legislator Christian Paul, who adds that the music and film industry has to face the reality of the Web today. "It's a bad text with lots of problems, and which opposes performers and Internet users," says Patrick Bloche, spokesman for Socialist Party legislators in parliament...
...tightens its budget, Harvard employees are no exception. Although fear of unemployment is in many ways inevitable in this depression, no one should feel that their identity—sexual, political, religious, or otherwise—must remain closeted in order to protect their job. We cannot allow this archaic atmosphere of discrimination to exist in the Harvard community, especially not during this critical period of economic turmoil...